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I have never thought of myself as a winner. I don’t regard myself to be competitive against others, only against my own standards. I thrive on a challenge, but my running has always been about doing myself justice and achieving things that I didn’t believe my body could do.

For many of us the summer is nearly over but, of course, the running never stops. This week our articles deal with bad things that can happen during a race, such as nausea and altitude sickness and some that happen after the race, like post-race blues.

It doesn’t feel possible that a year has already passed since we sat glued to UTMB TV to watch the magnificent François D’Haene cross the line in Chamonix first at last year’s Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc.

Summer in the northern hemisphere is all about the heat and that great mountain festival of running - UTMB. If you’re heading that way, you probably know all about what we’ve selected this week but it’s never too late to learn something new.